In Diablo 4, many players criticized the very high gold costs for masterworking. Blizzard has drastically reduced the costs with the latest update. You can find all changes and information about Diablo 4 on MeinMMO.
With Season 4, Blizzard changed a few things in Diablo 4. After many players complained about far too much gold, a new feature called Masterworking was introduced. The problem: Masterworking costs millions of gold and that got some players up in arms. Blizzard vowed to improve things and promised to fix the gold problems in Diablo 4.
With the new update 1.4.1 Build #54053 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox, the costs have now been significantly reduced. The patch went live on May 28th at 8:00 p.m. German time, and the download is around 500 MB. You can find the complete patch notes on page 2 of the article.
Diablo 4 adjusts gold costs for masterworking
The changes in costs in detail:
In particular, at the highest rank 12, the gold cost has been reduced to a quarter of the original cost. The developers write in explanation of the changes:
We want the primary driver for masterworking to be focused on acquiring materials rather than the need for gold. We want to avoid the possibility of having the materials but having to spend extra time gathering the gold.
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